Edward B Johnson, a CIA officer who helped to pull off the daring rescue of six US diplomats left in hiding in Iran after the ...

Edward B. Johnson, who as a Central Intelligence Agency officer traveled into Iran with a colleague to rescue six American ...

Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez in the film Argo Credit: Alamy When they finally boarded the Swissair flight out of Tehran, Johnson was spooked by a number of coincidences: the word ARGAU was painted ...

The caper inspired the movie “Argo.” By Sam Roberts Edward B. Johnson, who as an anonymous C.I.A. officer in 1980 helped rescue six American diplomats during the Iran hostage crisis by casting ...

Chris Messina and Damian Lewis have joined Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser in the cast of Pressure, and upcoming WW2 thriller ...

First-time director Goldenberg, who has edited Argo and others, in an introduction to the film thanked the film’s producers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and their company Artists Equity.

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Affleck—who, along with his BFF Matt Damon, produced the film based on wrestler Anthony ... her first major red carpet since her split from the Argo director. Meanwhile, Damon, who attended ...

The operation, which caught the public's imagination after it was dramatised by Ben Affleck's 2012 Oscar-winning film Argo, saw a CIA team enter Iran undercover as Hollywood filmmakers.

The 2012 Academy Award-winning film “Argo,” directed by and starring Ben Affleck, didn't include the second man on the team. Yet a painting at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia ...